choragus

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From Latin chorāgus, from Ancient Greek χορᾱγός (khorāgós), Doric form of χορηγός (khorēgós), from χορός (khorós, “chorus”) + ἄγω (ágō, “to lead”).

The Choragus, of course, dressed his actors for their parts; not according to their fancies or his own. — The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle, Aristotle
Then one chanted the closing line of the choragus: "Till in the world beyond we meet"--and all joined as with a single voice, the unutterable anguish of resigning that close communion with Deity, in which every one of them lived during this period, created its own ceremonial of farewell and found apt expression in those last words of the Passion Play. — On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Wilhelmine von Hillern

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